Catalog

Typically, applications consist of one or more workloads (containers), especially when deployed on Kubernetes, involving various related resources such as service exposure and volumes. This complexity makes application deployment and upgrades challenging.

Catalogs address these issues by bundling multiple application resources into a single unit called a package and deploying this package with user settings when necessary. Upgrades are also automated based on versioning. There are several open-source tools that support package creation, deployment, and management, with Helm being widely used, especially as an official Kubernetes project.

Cocktail Cloud's catalog offers the ability to search for such packages and automatically deploy them to service maps. These packages are in the form of Helm charts, which are supported by a wide range of open-source projects. Open-source packages are registered and managed in package repositories. There are numerous public package repositories where various open-source packages are available, and the catalog can search all these repositories for packages.

Packages deployed through the catalog are managed in the package menu of the service map. It provides monitoring and status of deployed packages and enables upgrades to newer versions.